Rail-joint.



W. R. SINK.

RAIL JOINT.

APPUCATION FILED 1AN.29, 1916.

1 1 7 6,993 Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Witnesses Attorneys i UNITED STATES raTEuT' orrron."

WILLIAM R. SINK, OF FORT COBB, OKLAHOMA, ASSI GNOR OF FORTY-FIVE ONE- HUNDREDTHS TO ALBERT E. FOSTER, OF-FOR'D COBB, OKLAHOMA.

v a RAIL-JOINT,

Application filed January 29, 1916.

T 0 all w ham it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. SINK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Cobb, in the county of Caddo and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Rail-Joint, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail joints, one of the objects being to provide a novel form of fish plate having a chair combined therewith, the chair portions interfitting and operating to support the abutting ends of the rails so as to prevent pounding by wheels passing over the joint.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the pre ferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail joint embodying the present improvements. Fig. 2 is a section on line AB Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line CD Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the members of the joint.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a block forming one section of the chair used in connection with the joint, this block being provided with a depending tongue 2 flush with one end of the block. A lip 3 is extended laterally from the lower edge of the tongue for about onehalf the width thereof, the remaining half of the lower portion of the tongue being cut away as shown at 1 so that when two similar opposed blocks are brought together, the lips on the tongues will become seated within the respective cut away portions 4.

Formed integral with each block 1 are opposed upwardly converging walls 5 designed to lap and engage the base flanges F of a rail R and these walls have upstanding flanges 6 adapted to fit against the sides of the web of the rail. One of the flanges 6 Specification ot Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Serial No. 75,057.

has a tongue 7 extending therefrom and beyond that end of the block from which the tongue 2 extends. This tongue 7 is offset fro-m its flange 6 a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the flange. Openings 8 are provided in the flanges 6 and additional openings 9 are formed in the tongue 7 Openings 10 are likewise provided in the depending tongue 2.

In using the structure herein described, the blocks 1 are oppositely disposed and placed with their broad ends in contact so that the tongue 7 on each member will lap one of the flanges 6 on the opposed member. The rails to be joined are inserted longitudinally between the flanges 6 on the respective members until they come together above the meeting faces of the blocks. Bolts 11 are then inserted transversely through the registering openings 8 and 9 and through the corresponding openings 0 in the rails R and additional bolts 12 are inserted in the registering openings 10 and secured. Thus the blocks will be held together and as the lip 3 on each block extends under the opposed block it will be apparent that any downward pressure exerted upon either block will be transmitted to the other block with the result that one rail cannot sag at its end, relative to the other rail. The lips 3 also serve to relieve the bolts 12 of downward strain.

What is claimed is 1. A rail joint including opposed like members each consisting of a block having a depending tongue at one end, there being an outstanding lip upon the tongue, said tongue being cut away at one side of the lip to provide a lip receiving space, opposed rail engaging members integral with and upstanding from the block, and a longitudinally extending tongue projecting beyond and offset from one end of one of the members.

2. A rail joint including opposed blocks increasing in size toward each other, each block having a depending tongue flush with the large end thereof, there being an outstanding lip upon each tongue and a corresponding lip receiving recess, upwardly converging walls integral with each block for overhanging and engaging the base flanges of a rail, flanges upstanding from said walls,

a tongue extending beyond and offset from my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature 0mg (hf the flanges $11 each block, said tongues in the presence of two Witnesses. an anges being ormed With bolt receiving openings, and means extending through the WILLIAM SINK depending tongues for binding the blocks \Vitnesses: together. PAUL GILBERT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as A. E. FOSTER.

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